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Case Reports
. 1998 Jun;55(6):854-6.
doi: 10.1001/archneur.55.6.854.

Familial idiopathic intracranial hypertension with spinal and radicular pain

R Santinelli  1 , C Tolone, R Toraldo, G Canino, A De Simone, M D'Avanzo
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Case Reports

Familial idiopathic intracranial hypertension with spinal and radicular pain

R Santinelli et al. Arch Neurol. 1998 Jun.

Abstract

Objective: To describe a mother and her 2 sons affected by idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), associated in the sons with root irritation symptom. Unlike the other 4 families reported previously, obesity was not present in our patients.

Design: Case reports.

Setting: Department of pediatrics in a university school of Medicine, Naples, Italy.

Patients: A mother (aged 36 years) and her 2 sons (aged 14 and 9 years) developed IIH at different times. Neuroimaging showed an empty sella in the mother, while IIH was associated with spinal and radicular pain in her 2 sons. The mother and the younger son developed permanent visual loss.

Conclusions: Ophthalmologic follow-up in our patients indicates that IIH is a chronic disease. Surgical treatment should be considered an option.

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